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mknod  ·  3388 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: It's a White Man's Internet

    Because leveling the playing field is a zero-sum game. A woman's right to vote comes at the expense of a man's vote being diminished, and so it follows for the rest. The position of the white man is a position propped up by injustice, historical and contemporary. An attack on injustice is a proxy war on the white man.

I would like to point out that even if this is sarcastic, it's only the illusion of a zero sum game. There are no real losses from giving others the privleges that were not previously taken by force or cohersion. I agree with the sentiment though.